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Art we’ve helped buy at National Museum of Scotland

Take Me by the Flying Scotsman
 Acquired 2020
Bamboo and Lotus
 Acquired 2019
Bruce - Oosterwijck Longitude Sea Clock
 Acquired 2018
Wash Stand
 Acquired 2018
The Galloway Hoard
 Acquired
Allegro dining suite
 Acquired 2016
The Fettercairn Jewel
 Acquired
Woven silk textile
 Acquired 1998
Wine cooler
 Acquired 1990
Two Statuettes
 Acquired 1983
Two Female Nudes
 Acquired 1998
Two dessert forks
 Acquired 1996
Trinity College Church Silver
 Acquired 2000
The Watson Mazer
 Acquired 1948
The Rainbow of Loushan
 Acquired 2011
The Monymusk Reliquary
 Acquired 1933
The Montrose Panels
 Acquired 1938
The Lennoxlove Toilet Service
 Acquired 1954
The King's Prize- covered cup for Leith Races
 Acquired 1993
The Hopetoun Sconces
 Acquired 2006
The Galloway Mazer
 Acquired 1954
The Dumfries Freedom box
 Acquired 1992
The Cathcart Panels
 Acquired 1938
The Cadboll Cup
 Acquired 1970
The Bute snuff box
 Acquired 1996
The Breadalbane Gun
 Acquired 1979
The Beckford Silver
 Acquired 1977
The Beaton Panels
 Acquired 1987
Tankard
 Acquired 1953
Table service commissioned by Napoleon I
 Acquired 1976
Sword of MacGregor of MacGregor
 Acquired 2002
Silver seal-box
 Acquired 1961
Silver Monteith Bowl
 Acquired 1966
Silver Cup
 Acquired 1956
Seton Ring
 Acquired 1946
Scottish targe
 Acquired 2001
Scottish daggers & Scottish pistol
 Acquired 2001
Scottish Claymore
 Acquired 1938
Reduced Copy of the Warwick Vase and Stand
 Acquired 1995
Prototype teapot
 Acquired 1994
Portrait of Douglas, 8th Duke of Hamilton on his Grand Tour ..
 Acquired 1992
Portrait of Alexander Dalrymple
 Acquired 2008
Plate, painted with God Creating Animals
 Acquired 1996
Persian bowl
 Acquired 1927
Overmantel: The Garden of the Hesperides
 Acquired 2008
Official Opening of the Nanjing Yangzi River Bridge
 Acquired 2000
Necessaire de Voyage of Princess Pauline Bonaparte-Borghese
 Acquired 1987
Model of the Head of Arthur St Clair Anstruther Thomson
 Acquired 2002
Ming dynasty table
 Acquired 1996
Mary Queen of Scots Pendant
 Acquired 1939
Mary Queen of Scots Cameo
 Acquired 1959
Lion-Tankard
 Acquired 1960
Le Marchand Ivories
 Acquired 2015
Kinghorne Carpet
 Acquired 1980
Jacobite bed hangings
 Acquired 1989
Iron Age torcs
 Acquired 2011
Indian miniature painting
 Acquired 1997
Hexagonal Salt, painted with the Weaknesses of Wise Men
 Acquired 1996
Gold Ampulla
 Acquired 1948
Funerary sculpture of lioness
 Acquired 1997
Freedom Box
 Acquired 1958
Footed bowl
 Acquired 1927
Five pieces of Chinese, Japanese and European porcelain
 Acquired 1927
Ewer
 Acquired 1926
Embroidered box & beadwork box
 Acquired 2002
Elizabethan Standing Salt
 Acquired 1973
Dunfermline Communion Cups
 Acquired 1996
Dining room settle
 Acquired 2002
Cream Ewer and Cover
 Acquired 1953
Crane Dance
 Acquired 2012
Collection of sixteen designs for buttons
 Acquired 1963
Collection of Chinese propaganda material from the mid-late 20th century
 Acquired 2013
Collection of 3 porcelain figures and 2 dishes
 Acquired 1963
Chair
 Acquired 2006
Box and Purse
 Acquired 1963
Bed curtain & valances
 Acquired 1921
A Late Roman Flask
 Acquired 1983
A glove and map of Charles Stuart, The Young Pretender
 Acquired 1958
35 pieces of porcelain, bronze and carvings
 Acquired 1938
25 Items of Weapons and Accessories
 Acquired 1952
148 pieces of pottery and porcelain
 Acquired 1925
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